The 2024 MLB postseason bracket probably won't be set in stone until the final day of the regular season, but we're already coming in hot with nine bold predictions on how the playoffs will eventually play out. Notably, there are no internal contradictions with these predictions, so it is possible for all of them to come true. (Though, I believe the only scenario in which all nine can happen is if Cleveland wins it all.
..so.
..go Guardians?) With all nine, our goal was to make bold-but-not-completely-outlandish predictions regarding a postseason picture that is still very much up in the air.
Predictions are presented in no particular order, but we'll start with the player-specific ones before progressing from the Wild Card Round through to the World Series. Predicting that there will be a walk-off hit in the postseason isn't bold in the slightest. There were only two walk-off wins last October, but there were three in 2022 (two of them by Oscar González) and five in 2021.
So, you can almost take it to the bank that there will be a couple. However, predicting that a walk-off hit will be delivered by one of three specific young players just might be the boldest of all these predictions. Those three players are Jackson Chourio of the Milwaukee Brewers, Jackson Holliday of the Baltimore Orioles and Jackson Merrill of the San Diego Padres.
Of the bunch, Holliday is easily the least likely to pull it off. Not only is he batting .169 for the year, but with Jordan Westburg returning.
